Christmas in summer? You bet! If you want to get you hands on this year’s LEGO Star Wars Advent Calendar (9509), you can now get it on Amazon
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If you’ve seen Michael McCooey’s, aka mmccooey, work before, you’ve probably seen his MOCs of the poseable Batman and Deadpool figures. He has now created The Amazing Spider-man figure and needs your help to reach 10000 supporters on LEGO CUUSOO. Spider-Man is more flexible and agile than Batman and Deadpool so changes were needed:
NEW AND IMPROVED
-He has a ball joint at the base of the neck as well as pivot joint at the base of the skull, allowing him to look all the way down and over his shoulders when contorted.
-A mid-torso joint that allows him to bend his spine forward and back, it also rotates from left to right, like the waist joint.
-His elbows and knees are double jointed, which allows free range of movement and the ability to fully crouch his legs.
-The hips can now allow the legs up and over the wasteline allowing for those very spider-like poses.
-His ankles have a second pivot joint for extra steep ankle poses, as well of full range of motion in the main joint.
-His feet have an articulated toe piece to make those perching poses more natural.
Licensing probably won’t be an issue since there are Spider-man sets coming out next year but that’s a separate issue. This is an amazing figure and I would totally support the project on LEGO CUUSOO and hope you can show your support too!
FBTB has reported that there will be new information regarding the LEGO Lord of the Rings Video game coming this October 30. Gamedot has released a press release summarizing the individuals of the Fellowship of the Ring and their in-game abilities. Not only can you play all 9 members of the Fellowship, but there are also 76 other characters you can play with for a total of 85 playable characters.
If you have been keeping up with the news, the Curiosity rover recently landed on Mars. To commemorate this event, Stephen Pakbaz created the Mars Science Laboratory Curiosity Rover on LEGO CUUSOO. The set was listed on 11/15/11 and hit 10000 supporters today. With the help of Reddit the Curiosity project gained a ton of supporters in 24 hours. The project now goes to the review stage which happens in September. If you can’t wait for the review process to finish, Stephen has put the step-by-step instructions on Rebrickable so you can make your own Curiosity rover today. Congratulations to Stephen for this amazing accomplishment!
Jedi News has teased a couple of sets that LEGO might be coming in winter 2013. The official news might come out from LEGO at Star Wars Celebration VI in Orlando on August 23-26. From what I’m hearing, The Rancor Pit is confirmed as seen at San Diego Comic Con 2012. Also, Hulk_Smash on Eurobricks says his local toy shop owner showed him a catalog of the new sets and states that the A-Wing, a new Clone Wars version of the ARC-170, a set featuring a four-armed minifigure which could be Genreal Pong Krell, as well as the AT-RT set will be in the winter release. Stay tuned to see which sets are announced in the near future. Which new LEGO Star Wars set(s) are you looking forward to?
Planets Series Three:
Kamino with Astromech Droid and Jedi Starfighter
Coruscant with Clone Pilot and Republic Assault Striker
Asteroid with TIE Bomber and TIE Pilot
Regular sets:
The Old Republic Battle Pack
Clone Troopers vs Droidekas Battle Pack
A-Wing including Admiral Ackbar, Han Solo and an A-Wing Pilot
AT-RT including Yoda, Clone Trooper and Assassin Droid
Z-95 Headhunter including three Clone Troopers
The Rancor Pit (as revealed at Comic Con)
Word on Brickset is there’s speculation about some new LEGO themes coming in 2013. LEGO has recently registered two trademarks named Legends of Chima and Speedorz. There’s been many theories around the LEGO community of what these new themes could be and also assumptions that the Legends of Chima might be the theme replacing Ninjago. We’ll have updates on what these new themes are about as soon as we hear from LEGO.
At Gamescom 2012 in South Korea, the new LEGO Lord of the Rings game trailer has been released. The game will follow the events of the movie trilogy in a linear fashion which is different from what you usually see in LEGO video games. Remember that you can get an exclusive Elrond minifigure if you order from Amazon.de. There is no news yet if there will be any exclusives for the North America release on October 30th.
